UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research Centre 2017 (UKCCSRC 2017)

更新的英国碳捕获和封存研究中心(UKCCSRC)提供关键的基础研究和协调活动，以帮助英国实现未来的能源目标。在目前UKCCSRC成功的基础上，从2017年开始的新的中心赠款支持基于全系统的研究方案，并是一个包容性的国家中心，以制定CCS研究战略，协调研究成果，促进社区凝聚力，并作为行业和利益攸关方参与的工具。新中心由谢菲尔德大学领导，合作伙伴包括英国地质调查局、剑桥大学、爱丁堡大学、诺丁汉大学和帝国理工学院，以及来自卡迪夫大学、克兰菲尔德大学、曼彻斯特大学、斯特拉斯克莱德大学和伦敦大学学院的其他研究人员。一名经验丰富的主任和中心经理得到三名副主任研究领导和更广泛的合作调查员团队的支持。管理是通过EPSRC任命的董事会进行的。该中心运营一个科学理事会，将英国的所有研究活动联系起来，并设立一个独立咨询小组，由来自政府、监管机构、工业和贸易协会的利益攸关方组成。CCS网络连接在一起，所有人都对CCS感兴趣。通过与其他世界领先的CCS中心的合作，参与国际倡议(包括CSLF、IEAGHG、GCCSI、UNCE)和领先研究人员的准会员计划，将扩大国际研究联系。英国CCSRC将领导协调国际CCS战略和活动，提高英国的形象和国际竞争能力。研究生培训和早期职业研究人员支持与位于诺丁汉的CCS CDT密切合作。新中心还支持数据和知识转让，促进共享设施。核心研究方案有三个相互关联的主题：存储、捕获和系统。在仓储方面，牛津大学最近的报告强调了在剩余仓储不确定性和长期责任转移方面的工作。了解压力增加和有效利用储集层孔隙空间是英国贯穿各领域的研究重点。研究主题包括储油层内的压力迁移和羽流迁移对地质力学安全、羽流稳定性和现场监测的影响。捕获主题侧重于下一代二氧化碳捕获技术和过程，包括基于高温和低温固体的循环，并与系统工作密切联系。对调查的每个过程以及BECCS(使用PACT设施)、天然气和超临界二氧化碳循环的综合电力和氢气生产的其他工作的结果进行了详细的建模，以产生整合到整个英国系统研究的数据。在英国范围内的系统工作包括将热和电力需求、能源市场、工业需求、二氧化碳运输基础设施以及二氧化碳储存和温室气体去除技术(GGR，特别是BECCS)联系起来。总体目标是为现有的全英国能源系统建模和综合评估模型提供投入。我们还审查了化石燃料CCS和BECC的“社会运营许可证”。在核心研究计划和150万GB的补充资金的基础上，该中心将作为一个机制，让研究界协调从研究理事会和其他来源为基础研究提供额外资金的申请。该中心还将与应用研究资助机构和工业界合作，支持推动研究成果的举措。

The renewed UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research Centre (UKCCSRC) provides key fundamental research and coordination activities to help the UK to meet future energy targets. Building on the success of the current UKCCSRC, the new centre grant, starting in 2017, supports a whole-systems based research programme and is an inclusive national hub to set CCS research strategies, coordinate research delivery, promote community cohesion, and act as vehicle for industrial and stakeholder involvement. The new Centre is led by the University of Sheffield, with partners the British Geological Survey, University of Cambridge, University of Edinburgh, University of Nottingham and Imperial College and additional investigators from Cardiff University, Cranfield University, University of Manchester, University of Strathclyde and University College London. An experienced Director and Centre Manager are supported by three Deputy Director research leads and the wider co-investigator team. Governance is through a Board appointed by the EPSRC.The Centre operates a Scientific Council to link all UK research activities and an Independent Advisory Panel comprising stakeholders from Government, regulators, industry and trade associations. The CCS Network links together all with an interest in CCS. Comprehensive stakeholder engagement and the whole systems insights from the Centre's research will play a key role in developing the short, medium and long term strategies needed to accelerate the deployment of CCS in the UK.International research links will be extended through collaborations with other world-leading CCS centres, participation in international initiatives (including CSLF, IEAGHG, GCCSI, UNECE) and an Associate Membership programme for leading researchers. The UKCCSRC will lead on coordinating international CCS strategy and activities, raising the UK's profile and ability to compete internationally.Postgraduate training and Early Career Researcher support are delivered in close partnership with the CCS CDT at Nottingham. The new centre also supports data and knowledge transfer and promotes shared facilities.The core research programme has three linked themes: storage, capture and systems. On storage, the recent Oxburgh Report highlighted work on residual storage uncertainties and transfer of long-term liability. Understanding of pressure increase and efficient use of reservoir pore-space are cross-cutting UK research priorities. Research topics include pressure migration and plume migration within storage reservoirs with impacts for geomechanical security, plume stability and site monitorability.The capture theme focuses on next generation CO2 capture technologies and processes including high and low temperature solids-based cycles and links closely to the systems work. Detailed modelling of each process investigated together with results from other work on BECCS (using the PACT facilities), integrated electricity and hydrogen production from natural gas and supercritical CO2 cycles is used to produce data for integration into overall UK systems studies.Work on UK-wide systems includes linking demand for heat and power, energy markets, industrial demand, CO2 transport infrastructure, and CO2 storage and greenhouse gas removal technologies (GGRs, particularly BECCS). The overall objective is to provide inputs into existing UK-wide energy system modelling and Integrated Assessment Models. We also examine 'social license to operate' for fossil-fired CCS as well as BECCS.Building on the core research programme and a supplementary £1.5M flexible funds for open research calls, the Centre will act as a mechanism for the research community to coordinate applications for additional funding for fundamental research from the Research Councils and other sources. The Centre will also support initiatives to take the outputs of research forward in collaboration with applied research funding agencies and industry.